VABF Day 7: Ann Hansen on Prisoner Organizing and Working With Allies
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English - October 29, 2021 10:00 - 51 minutes - 47.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsNews Society & Culture culture anarchism anarchy canada news politics society Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this interview, Ann Hansen, author of Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerilla and Taking the Rap: Women Doing Time For Society's Crimes, discusses her work with the Prison for Women Memorial Collective (P4WMC). The group is dedicated to having a permanent Memorial Garden and Gallery for all of the women who died in federal prisons, to be located inside the now-closed P4W Prison. It is their goal to exhibit art, writing and films about the women in prison, so they will be remembered as the fully fleshed-out human beings they were. Ann recounts recent challenges her group faced working with non-prisoner allies.